Four steps to creating the ideal prospecting list.

by Veronica Herrera 1 min read August 5, 2014

At Experian, we frequently get asked by clients how they can get bigger mailing list that open new markets and reach more people. But biggerisn’t necessarily better, and it doesn’t always translate to a higher return on your marketing investment. Instead of just increasing volume, let’s consider a different, more focused approach – using the latest in analytic tools and scores. This approach relies on effective pre-screening to create the ideal prospecting lists based onyour business objective. We’ve identified four key steps to building a prescreen list of your ideal prospects:

  1. Optimizerisk selection
  2. Find the most profitable consumers
  3. Target customers who need or want your products
  4. Design the right offer

In the next post, Optimal Risk Selection, I’ll dig deeper into each step and present some tools and scores that can help meet the objective of each.

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